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Title: Domestic architecture of the American colonies and of the early republic
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955 New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Committee on Education
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Colonial
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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harlestown in Youngs Chronicles of Massachusetts, pp. 375-376 and note, 378. 7 Roger Clap in May, 1630, found in Charlestown, Some wigwams and one house, ib., p. 349. Thegreat house is believed to have stood until 1775. Ib., p. 375, note. 8 Town Records quoted from Youngs Chronicles of Massachusetts, p. 379. 9 Ib., p. 381. 10 Winthrop, History of New England (1825 ed.), vol. 1, p. 32. 11 Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2d ser., vol. 11 (1897), p. 186. IO THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY stories and a half, two rooms on a floor besides the kitchen, entry, and porchchamber over it.1 Although we are ignorant of the precise form of these first governors houses,we are so fortunate as to have in 16^8 most detailed prescriptions for the house ofanother official, Deputy-Governor Samuel Symonds, at Ipswich, in a letter to JohnWinthrop the younger. If we read this without merely fitting it to our precon-ceptions, we will rind every sentence full of illumination on unfamiliar points:
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From a photograph by The Halliday Historic Photograph Co. Figure 3. Scotch House (Boardman house), Saugus, Massachusetts. 1651 Concerning the frame of the house ... I am indiferent whether it be 30 foote or35 foote longe; 16 or 18 foote broade. I would have wood chimnyes at each end, theframes of the chimnyes to be stronger than ordinary, to beare good heavy load of clayfor security against fire. You may let the chimnyes by all the breadth of the howse ifyou thinke good; the 2 lower dores to be in the middle of the howse, one opposite theother. Be sure that all the dorewaies in every place be soe high that any man may goevpright vnder. The staiers I think had best be placed close by the dore. It makes noegreat matter though there be noe particion vpon the first flore; if there be, make one bigerthen the other. For windowes let them not be over large in any roome, & as few as con-veniently may be; let all have current shutting draw-windowes, haveing respect both to1 A. M. Earle, Ma

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